Chapter 72 Irony
The Martial Arts School eats in different canteens according to the subject. Liu Shaoqing, Yang Yong, Huang Chengyong, Duan Qirui and others all choose artillery departments, so they all eat together. After the meal, everyone takes them to the classroom to attend classes.
"Brother Shaoqing!"
With a greeting, Liu Shaoqing turned his head and saw that it was Wen Dusu, Muller and others. He hurriedly came forward to say hello.
After a little greeting, Muller said, "I thought Brother Shaoqing would be in Buke, and I thought I could be in the same dormitory as you, but after asking, I found out that you chose the Cannon Department."
Wen Dusu said, "Brother Baozhen, have you forgotten what Shaoqing wrote when he was taking the strategy theory? I'm not surprised that he can choose the artillery department."
Muller smiled and said, "Yes, just like Lu'an and I, one with the squad and one with the squad, are all based on our own preferences."
During the Qing Dynasty, people called each other the characters "Phe" and "Phe" characters "Baozhen, Lu'an" characters "Mule and Wen Dusu". Liu Shaoqing also had the characters "Phe" characters, but his character "Phe" was too weird, so no one would call them out so directly.
"Yes, I'm also very interested in artillery, so I chose it. But I'm the one I choose to take the Bing."
Wendu Soda quipped: "It doesn't matter what you take. Anyway, you are the academic affairs supervisor of the art subject. You must be clear about any course in any subject."
Liu Shaoqing touched his nose, which was the same, but in this way, although he had more comprehensive knowledge, he would have worked harder.
After saying this, Wen Dusu looked at Duan Qirui and others beside him and asked casually: "These brothers are..."
Liu Shaoqing quickly introduced: "These are all classmates from our artillery department. These two are Huang Chengyong and Yang Yong, my brother, you have seen them. The other few are Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Shang Dequan and Teng Yuzao from the Huai Army."
Wen Dusu quickly clasped his fists and said, "It turns out that he is under Lord Li's command, he is indifferent to respect."
Duan Qirui and others saluted and said, "I have met Taiji and all the lords."
Wen Dusu smiled and said, "Okay, we are all students now. There is only Supervisor Liu here, but there is no Taiji or any leader. Why are you all in the artillery department?"
Seeing that the prince had no airs, Duan Qirui stood up and said, "Yes, we are from the artillery department. In addition, some people also chose the artillery department, but they are not here now. Let them pay their respects to Taiji later."
The students in the martial arts school are both Manchu, Mongolian and Han, but they are very different when choosing subjects. Almost all of the students in Manchu and Mongolian chose the cycling subjects, while most of the students in the second Han nationality chose the artillery and the scholastic subjects, and only a few chose the engineering subjects.
Wen Dusu saw Duan Qirui also called his official position, pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "I said there is no Taiji here. If you want to pay your respects, you should go to the palace to find it."
Duan Qirui bowed quickly and said, "Brother Lu'an is blamed."
Everyone was talking and laughing and walking towards the classroom. On the way, Wen Dusu asked Liu Shaoqing, "I heard shouts outside early in the morning, are you practicing?"
Liu Shaoqing said: "Yes, why, why did you make your dream come true?"
Wen Dusu said disdainfully: "Am I someone who gets up so late? But then again, I am very interested in your side. I don't know if Fang is not convenient to go there?"
"What's inconvenient about this? To be honest, after this course has been opened for a while, all of you will have to follow the morning fucking there." As he said, he nodded to Duan Qirui, and said, "Isn't that what, these people practiced with us early this morning."
In fact, Liu Shaoqing knew that Wen Dusu wanted to go to his place because he was really curious and wanted to understand the situation. On the other hand, he was showing kindness to him.
Liu Shaoqing is now in the throne. Although the attack and annihilation of him in the court has begun, and even the old man of Wendusu, Bodorgatai, Prince Boyan, is probably the representative of it, no one can say whether Liu Shaoqing can really be trampled to death. After all, this kid is only fifteen years old now, the same age as the emperor, and the future journey of the monarch and ministers is still long. Maybe one day the salt fish will turn over and sing. So those big families are betting on both sides in this situation. Should the head trampled him to death or to death, but the younger generation should make friends or to make friends.
"So that's it. Well, brother will go to your morning exercises together tomorrow. Oh, are you tired?"
"Haha..." Liu Shaoqing smiled and said, "Brother Lu'an, you have to be prepared."
Talked and laughed, and everyone walked into the classroom together.
The morning course is subject, starting from 8 o'clock until ending at twelve o'clock. Everyone learns the same, including military strategy, arithmetic, geometry, geography, physics and other subjects. There will be an hour and a half lunch break after lunch. The teaching of the art subject in the afternoon includes basic tactics, applied tactics, mapping, strategy, ditching, ballistics, military system, field service, infantry exercises, ballooning, etc.
From the course arrangement, we can see that in order to follow all course teaching, the requirements for students to read are very strict, which is why the Martial Arts School only screened out more than 200 people in the end.
In addition, the school also requires each student to master two foreign languages, one majoring in and one elective. This was requested by the emperor alone, and I don’t know why. Liu Shaoqing had learned a little French in Beiqi, so he majored in French, so the elective was naturally German. Most of the other students majored in German, English and French, and only a very small number of them chose Russian.
After dinner, we teach classics and history, mainly teaching the idea of loyalty to the emperor and Confucian morality, as well as the responsibilities and obligations of soldiers that Guangxu himself thought of. From a psychological perspective, this kind of indoctrination is also a process of establishing personal beliefs.
The course of the day officially ends at 8 pm, after which there is an hour of free activity time and half an hour of washing time. The lights are turned off at 9 30 pm.
As for queue training, physical training, fighting training, etc., we will join in the future.
The courses are full every day, because these students have basically never been exposed to Western natural science knowledge and advanced military ideas, so they have a lot of difficulty in learning at the beginning. On the contrary, the classics and history classes at night have become a time for everyone to relax their brains.
School has just started and the physical training has not yet begun. Everyone is exhausted by the heavy mental labor on the first day. Everyone has to wash up and go to bed to rest. However, Liu Shaoqing, Huang Chengyong and others have to continue to follow up on the evening exercises of the training camp. Not only does they have no rest time to move freely, they also have to go to bed until ten o'clock.
And you have to get up early the next day.
The next day, in addition to Duan Qirui and the four of them who came to participate in the morning exercises of the training camp on the first day, the warmth increased Su, Muller, Wang Shizhen, Shang Dequan, Teng Yuzao and others. In addition, Duan Qirui and others also expressed their hope to participate in the evening exercises of the training camp at the same time. There will be literacy classes every night in the training camp, and the class time basically overlaps with the classics and history of the martial arts school at night. Therefore, if everyone can keep up with their energy, they can come here to have evening exercises after taking the classics and history class.
Day 3... Day 4...
Because Muller, Wensu, Duan Qirui and the three men were in the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han nationalities, more and more students participated in the training camp every day. Seven days later, the Wubei Academy began to arrange two morning and evening exercises among the students, including physical training, queue training and military content and internal training. One month later, with the gradual increase in physical training volume and the gradual addition of fighting training, the course arrangement of the Wubei Academy truly became perfect.
Liu Shaoqing has been living in the military camp for more than a month. He is both a student and a teacher, and he also has to fulfill his duties of training in the Beijing camp, and is so busy that he hit the back of his head. Similarly, the one in the Forbidden City is not idle at all.
In November 1885, the UK took advantage of the appeal of the British business company that was fined by the Myanmar government as an excuse to launch the war and provoked the Third British-Burma War. Just three days later, the British army occupied the border fortress Minhera and approached the Burmese capital Mandalay. Faced with the British army that had an advantage in quantity and equipment, the Burmese regular army could not resist it. On the 28th, the British army entered Mandalay.
"Myanmar is a vassal state of China, which is recorded in "Huidian". Before the first year of Guangxu, it was never stopped for ten years. Why did the British soldiers attack without authorization?"
Faced with the emperor's anger and accusations, Yi could only respond with a wry smile. The British Empire is now the most powerful country in the world. If he wants to annex there, will he still discuss it with you? Just like Juwen Island, isn't North Korea a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty? Didn't it just take it?
"Returning to the emperor, Zeng Jize has been negotiating with the British side. British Prime Minister Shalisbury has already made up his mind and agreed to discuss the establishment of the Burmese King with the court. He still calls China a vassal state and comes to the court as usual. However..."
Zai Tian smiled coldly: "But what? But Myanmar will eventually fall into the hands of the British, right? Let's discuss the re-establishment of the Burmese King together! Humph, what if it is established, it's just a puppet. Can I still make the decision in the Qing Dynasty?"
But Zai Tian also knew that he could only complain. A weak country has no diplomacy and cannot win military force. Can he still expect to negotiate at the negotiating table? Zeng Jize has tried his best to achieve this.
At this moment, Zai Tian’s heart to strengthen the country and strengthen the army was extremely firm.
However, there are more than one annoying things.
"Okay, it's fine for the British to bully us, but even the little RB wants to bully us, so what do you say about this?"
Shi Duo looked at Yi? The military aircraft leader was basically a hand-off manager. Especially for such matters involving foreign countries, the Zongli Yamen usually reported the emperor directly, but it was just his hand at all. So he had no idea why the emperor was so angry.
Zai Tian picked up a note on the desk and threw it to Shiduo, "Look at it for yourself and see what those RB people said about us."
In December 1885, North Korea's Kan Yujun colluded with the RB ronin group and conspired to cross the sea to attack North Korea. Although RB then exiled Kan Yujun to avoid angering China, he detained Kentaro Oi. But then, Kuroda Kiyotsuki reported to the RB Emperor, saying that "they should quickly seize North Korea within one or two years and start a war with China, otherwise China will be strong in three years, and then RB will be even more unable to defeat China."
Emperor RB immediately ordered the ministers to discuss the matter.
Hirobuki Ito said: "For my big RB empire, even if we don't go to war with China, the annual fiscal deficit will be about 10 million yen (about 9 million taels of silver). If the war starts, the economy will not be able to support it at all. Even if we want to truce, it will be too late. This matter must be cautious no matter what!"
Kuroda Kiyoshi said angrily: "But now the Chinese emperor is working hard to govern and begins to vigorously rectify the coastal defense. The army will not take three to five years. How can the Great RB Imperial Army fight against China! Can't you see the two giant ships of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan?"
Ito Hirofumi smiled and said, "Kuro Kuroda is too worried. China uses the writing of time and the martial arts with bows and arrows. What it takes is not what it takes. If it changes slightly, the officials will talk about it. Although it is now rectifying the navy and army, it is just empty talk in my opinion. It is just because I have just fought a war with the French and acted like a good person. It takes less than a year or two to be "followed by peace". As the Westerners said, "I'm going to sleep again." If we choose to start a war at this time, wouldn't we wake him up? That wouldn't it help and urge him to be strong? Please see, China has only started to fight since the Iraq War.
Set up a telegram; just after the Sino-French War, we began to rectify the coastal defense. If we were calm for a year or two, the censors of their court would definitely clamor for the change of things, and those who really wanted to do things for the country would not dare to move. The so-called talent and knowledge of the Chinese court was just the classics and history of thousands of years ago. What should we worry about? At this time, we only need to make friends with him, and then quickly rectify the domestic economy, build more railways, and add ships. Now our currency reform has been implemented, and officials and businessmen can be rich in three or five years. It will not be too late to deal with the situation in China."
Foreign Minister Inoue Kin also agreed with Hirobuki Ito: "Everyone knows that China is not worthy of fear, so there is no need to worry too much."
Hirobuki Ito said: "As for what Kuroda-kun said, if our country cannot open up new land, it will definitely be difficult to become prosperous and strong. I absolutely agree with this point, but now is not the time to start a war."
Chapter completed!